Tupas appoints aide as guv anew
So who's afraid of usurpation and malversation raps? And who's afraid of the Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas?
If latest Executive Orders in the Capitol are to be considered, then it is definitely not Governor Niel Tupas Sr.
This, after an appointment was issued anew delegating the powers of Officer-in-charge in the Office of the Governor controversial aide, Manuel Mejorada.
Referred to as "Provincial Administrator," the governor issued Executive Orders 319 and 329 in the past week with the latest entrusting to Mejorada the "powers, duties and functions of the Governor except the power to appoint, suspend or dismiss personnel and to sign Executive Order until my return."
Problem is, or at least as far as Vice Governor Rolex Suplico is concerned, the Provincial Government of Iloilo has no official provincial administrator to speak of.
"The post is vacant and that is official (stand) coming from the Civil Service Commission," Vice Governor Suplico said when reached for reaction by The News Today (TNT). "So it is additional count, the latest Executive Orders in the cases that were filed already."
Mejorada stands accused of the latest Ombudsman complaints for six counts of malversation of public funds thru falsification of public documents and one count of usurpation.
The charges stemmed from the recent expose of Suplico that had the CSC state a vacancy in the posts of Provincial Administrator and the Provincial Legal Office.